Upgrading of careers for carers, equal access to care for all, catching up for psychiatry, reform of health insurance, revamping of medical studies ... are on the program of a "carers' manifesto" proposed on Sunday, at the day before the opening of the “Ségur de la santé” consultations.
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This set of extremely detailed proposals, concerning all fields of public health, is published on the website of the daily Liberation. It is signed by personalities on the front line in the defense of the public hospital, including members of the Inter-hospital Committee (Antoine Pélissolo, François Salachas, André Grimaldi) or inter-emergencies (Hugo Huon), the sociologist Dominique Méda or also the former director of Public Health France, François Bourdillon.
It is accompanied by an open letter to Emmanuel Macron, recalling the concern expressed for months or even years "as to the extremely worrying development of the health system ... without response to the height of the problems raised" . “And what we all feared has happened: a cataclysm. The Covid epidemic has swept across the nation, placing the fragile, destitute, boneless public hospital on the front line, " they continue. "We must hold on, but the exhausted combatants will desert if the" massive plan "that you announced, Mr. President, does not meet the challenges," conclude the signatories, while the "Ségur" opens on Monday de la santé ”, a seven-week consultation aimed at improving patient care and caregivers' working conditions.
This letter is accompanied by a series of proposals, the first aiming to "define in law" five public health services: "health insurance, care and prevention, health security and public health, education and continuing training, research". The text also proposes to "fund inalienable social security", which would take 100% "a wide basket of prevention, care and services", advocating universal access to care by ending social and territorial inequalities .
